Chapter 0 – Prologue

“Ryona” is a term referring to a sexual fetish that involves enjoying situations where characters are bullied, beaten, killed, or subjected to similar treatment.

Games containing such elements are called “ryona games,” or “ryona-ge” for short.

While ryona game characters can be anyone regardless of age or gender, most ryona games currently available online are targeted at men, so the playable characters are primarily beautiful girls.

And these girls generally suffer terrible fates.

Given the nature of the content, the small group of enthusiasts who enjoy playing ryona games—for instance, people who get excited watching a naked beautiful girl deliberately dropped into a pit trap to view her internal organs, or who find arousal in seeing her brutally beaten by monsters—might be incomprehensible and condemnable to ordinary people.

However, couldn’t there also be another perspective?

Namely: “These players merely played a game that already existed, exactly as the creators intended.”

In that case, wouldn’t the ones most deserving of condemnation not be the players, but rather the creators who made such games?

No, let me correct that.

They absolutely deserve condemnation! Whoever made something like this has got to be insane!

…Or so I thought, as I left behind the room where grotesque monsters and tentacles were writhing about, returning to the dark corridor.

Ah, my introduction is overdue. I’m Suzuki Sugar Satou.

I’m an ordinary second-year high school student with the most common name in the country, average high school grades, and average high school physical abilities, who makes games as a hobby.

I’m currently in full-blown denial of reality, having just been transported into the world of The Labyrinth Is Full of Hope!—my work that won first place at the Ryona Game Contest, commonly known as Ryona-Con.

…How did it come to this?

I reflected on today’s events.

Yes, it all started with a single statement from Shimura-senpai, the president of the Game Development Club I belong to.

“Sorry. I’m only interested in yandere.”